Out of the Inkwell (1938 film)
| Out of the Inkwell | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer (producer) S. Roy Luby (associate producer) |
| Animation by | Animated by: Thomas Johnson and Otto Feuer[1] |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Running time | 7 mins |
Out of the Inkwell is a 1938 Max Fleischer/Betty Boop animated short film.[2] The title and concept for the film were a tribute to the Out of the Inkwell series of films that Max Fleischer had produced during the 1920s.
Synopsis
A live-action black janitor, played by Oscar Polk, best known for his portrayal as the servant "Pork" in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, studies hypnotism from a book while cleaning Max Fleischer's desk at the Fleischer studio. He manages to conjure Max's pen into drawing Betty Boop. In a sequence of animation mixed with live-action, he uses his new powers to control the white animated Boop. She in turn is able to control a small dog. After waking from the spell, Betty manages to work a few more spells. Fraught with racial innuendo, one of her tricks includes turning the black man white for a split-second, after which he begins cleaning in overdrive. Before that, he was sleeping on his broom and sweeping dirt under the carpet. At the end, Betty Boop leaps into a bottle of black ink.
References
- ^ Full credits at IMDb.
- ^ Out of the Inkwell at The Big Cartoon Database.
External links
- Out of the Inkwell on Youtube